' Just listen ' Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel. I open my eyes wide now. I sit up as much as I can. & I listen. ' Stay ' he says. Everybody has to make choices. Some might break you. For seventeen-year-old Mia surrounded by a wonderful family friends & a gorgeous boyfriend decisions might seem tough but they're all about a future full of music & love a future that's brimming with hope. But life can change in an instant. A cold February morning.. .a snowy road.. .and suddenly all of Mia's choices are gone. Except one. As alone as she'll ever be Mia must make the most difficult choice of all. Gripping heartrending & ultimately life-affirming If I Stay" will make you appreciate all that you have all that you've lost
- & all that might be."
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When Sara Mc Millan finds a stack of journals in a storage unit she's shocked & enthralled by the erotic life the writer led. Unable to stop reading she vicariously lives out dark fantasies through Rebecca the writer-until the terrifying final entry. Certain something sinister has happened Sara sets out to discover the facts immersing herself in Rebecca's life. Soon she's working at the art gallery Rebecca worked at & meeting Rebecca's friends. Finding herself drawn to two dangerously sexy men the manager of the gallery & a famed artist Sara realizes she's going down the same path Rebecca took. But with the promise of her dark needs being met by a man with confident good looks & a desire for control she's not sure anything else matters. Just the burn for more. ...

If Im so wonderful why am I still single? Relationship expert Susan Page asks
- & answers
- this puzzling question in her classic

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Giving voice to the dispossessed & crafting stories of lives on the edge lives almost lost lives held in the balance James Kelman writes about the things that touch us all. With honesty toughness & humour he confronts the issues of language class politics gender & age
- identity in all its forms
- with a sympathetic pen & a sharp & observant eye. No other British writer today penetrates so deeply into the hearts minds & desperation of his characters & this collection is as uncompromising & as beautiful as anything he has ever written.

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Get ready to embark on the ride of your life with this thrill-fuelled thriller for fans of Karin Slaughter & Karen Rose. Mirror mirror on the wall whos the fairest of them all? The victims are found face-down in the murky waters of Cherokee Pointe Tennessee. The murders all share the same characteristics: the victims are found naked except for a black satin ribbon tied around theyre necks
- & theyre all redheads. Meanwhile Reve Sorrell has come to Cherokee Pointe seeking answers about her connection to bad girl Jazzy Talbot. With their stunning looks the two redheads are mirror images of each other
- but raised in very different worlds. As the serial killer leaves another chilling calling card Reve turns to Sheriff Jacob Butler to help her unravel the deadly secrets of her past. But one person will do anything to stop her
- & they are closer than she could ever imagine...


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Ben Joe is the only boy in a family of six sisters Mama & Gram. He is studying for a law degree in New York when he hears his eldest sister Joanne has left her husband & returned home with her baby girl. Out of a mixture of homesickness & duty Ben Joe returns to the home in which he has always felt like an outsider. ...

This novel owes as much to poetry as it does to prose. Its opening an invocation of the life of the city is strongly reminiscent of Audens Night Mail in its hypnotic portrait of industrialised society... An assured debut Erica Wagner The Times. On a street in a town in the North of England ordinary people are going through the motions of their everyday existence
- street cricket barbecues painting windows...A young man is in love with a neighbour who does not even know his name. An old couple make their way up to the nearby bus stop. But then a terrible event shatters the quiet of the early summer evening. That this remarkable & horrific event is only poignant to those who saw it not even meriting a mention on the local news means that those who witness it will be altered for ever. Jon Mc Gregors first novel brilliantly evokes the histories & lives of the people in the street to build up an unforgettable human panorama. Breathtakingly original humane & moving IF NOBODY SPEAKS OF REMARKABLE THINGS is an astonishing debut. The work of a burning new talent.. . Jon Mac Gregor writes like a lyrical angel Daily Mail
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Twenty years ago rower Greg Searle won Gold in the Coxed Pair alongside his brother Jonny at the Barcelona Olympic Games. At the age of 20 he received an MBE & by the time he had reached his mid-thirties his glorious career as an international athlete was over. Or was it? If Not Now When? is a book about obsession; about the drive to be the best you can be whatever your age. In April 2010 & almost two decades older than the rest of the British rowing squad Greg made the decision to come out of retirement & go for gold again at the London 2012 Olympics. His journey gets to the very heart of what it means to compete; teamwork & loyalty the struggle to deal with disappointment & the will to win. In the 2012 final Greg won bronze as part of the mens eight & sealed his status as Olympic legend. ...

Calvinos masterpiece opens with a scene thats reassuringly commonplace: apparently. Indeed its taking place now. A reader goes into a bookshop to buy a book: not any book but the latest Calvino the book you are holding in your hands. Or is it? Are you the reader? Is this the book? Beware. All assumptions are dangerous on this most bewitching switch-back ride to the heart of storytelling. ...

Fresh out of Veterinary College & shoulder-deep in an uncooperative cow James Herriots first job is not panning out exactly as expected.. . To a Glaswegian like James 1930s Yorkshire appears to offer an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world. But even life in the sleepy village of Darrowby has its challenges. On the one hand there are his new colleagues Siegfried & Tristan Farnon two brothers who attract a constant stream of local girls to whom James is strangely invisible. On the other he must contend with herds of semi-feral cattle gruff farmers with incomprehensible accents & an overweight Pekingese called Tricki Woo... Heartbreaking & hilarious in equal measure If Only They Could Talk is a book for all those who find laughter & joy in animals & who know & understand the magic & beauty of Britains wild places. Bulls with sunstroke pigs on the run & a cake-eating Peke with a betting habit.. .I grew up reading James Herriots book & Im delighted that thirty years on they are still every bit as charming heartwarming & laugh-out-loud funny as they were then Kate Humble Its a pleasure to be in James Herriots company Observer After an evening among his tales anyone with as much as a dog or a budgerigar will feel he should move to Darrowby at once Yorkshire Post ...